Anderson Cooper

I tried.

I would try often.

And sometimes I'd get like 30 or 40 seconds in before the emergency brake got pulled by her throwing her hands up and saying, I can't talk about this.

I don't want to.

Don't make me talk about it.

Don't make me talk about it.

And then you just feel like you're this wicked person for delving deeper.

A lot of the stuff that's been talked about in your amazing interviews, it's the things we bury and how they fester and how they never go away.

You think they're gone.

You think you've outlived them.

And they're there.

When you open yourself up to all the questions, then you've got a shot at getting them answered.

But what was amazing is that Kathy...

And even my dad, who died at a pretty young age, 65, there were so many conversations that we had never had.

And what I found was, and I don't know if you found this to be the case, but people leave clues behind.

Sometimes.

often on purpose.

They leave clues behind, the songs they loved, the books they loved, the photos they loved.

Usually it's not a diary, it's the little things.

And so I found that I was collecting all these little crumbs that had been left behind by Kathy and my dad.